While Cuomo’s commitment represents an eight percent increase over the $2.5 billion spent annually on state programs for people living with HIV and AIDS, Horn says funding isn’t exactly the problem. “We all know someone who has died because of AIDS, either because they were not educated on the disease or they just fell prey to peer pressure”.
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“Unless we control new HIV infections among this group, our aspirations of becoming a vibrant middle-income economy in the next few years is in jeopardy”, she added.
“Ending the AIDS epidemic means that adolescent girls and young women have access to education and appropriate HIV and sexual and reproductive health services”, he said in his World AIDS Day message posted on the UNAIDS website.
“As President, I will redouble our efforts in HIV research, treatment, and prevention, and work with our allies to end the scourge of AIDS”, O’Malley said in a statement to CNN.
Both men – still engaged in a long-running feud – spoke separately at a World AIDS Day event at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. According to the CDC, Blacks and Latinos continue to experience the most severe burden of HIV in America, accounting for 44 and 21 percent of new cases of infection respectively.
December 1 is designated as World AIDS Day, a time to unite in the fight against the disease. According to a United Nations survey held in then Asia-Pacific region, out of 20 lakh people in India, four out of every 10 people are suffering from the deadly disease, which is matter of great concern of the nation.
“I hate to even use the term AIDS”, said Dr. Peter Gulick with Ingham Community Health Centers.
If you aren’t sure of your HIV status, you can go to ACR Health at 120 Washington Street in Watertown. New HIV infections have been reduced by 35% since 2000 and AIDS-related deaths have been reduced by 42% since the peak in 2004. Over 13 years of service, more than 1 million babies have been born HIV-free.
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“We can’t achieve that goal without government coming on board and providing the new tools so it was heartening to see good media coverage of the necessity to get rid of the CD4 threshold that stops people going onto treatment as soon as they are diagnosed”, he says.
